Comment Re:No! (Score 1) 383
A few years ago when I was head of IT at a private school in the middle east, we were forced by parental pressure to swap-out our Acorn education computers for PCs under Windows and running Office. The reasoning was that children could do their homework/projects etc on their parents' computers.
Of the more than a quarter-million dollars we spent, one half of it went to MS for licences who informed us 'It is not our policy to let you have manuals, you have only bought a licence-to-use'.
Of course the pupils did next to no work at home but neither would they have done had we kept our Acorn system.
The real shame of the MS route is that so much money is wasted on licences (including the Permission to Upgrade licence we had to buy) rather than buying working resources for any hard-pressed education system.
Of the more than a quarter-million dollars we spent, one half of it went to MS for licences who informed us 'It is not our policy to let you have manuals, you have only bought a licence-to-use'.
Of course the pupils did next to no work at home but neither would they have done had we kept our Acorn system.
The real shame of the MS route is that so much money is wasted on licences (including the Permission to Upgrade licence we had to buy) rather than buying working resources for any hard-pressed education system.
